Example sentences of "have been [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the past , samples of children 's language have been collected using a diary approach where examples of children 's utterances , together with a description of the surrounding context , were simply written down over a period of weeks or months ( Miller 1981a ) . |
| 2 | OVER THE past few years Britain and her European allies have been trying to adapt a system designed to catch Warsaw Pact spies to the task of hunting international terrorists . |
| 3 | For the last six months the managers brought into the firm by Robert Maxwell have been trying to strike a deal to wrench it from the quagmire of his estate . |
| 4 | ‘ I have been trying to get a video of the game for the past four or five years , but I have never had any success . ’ |
| 5 | Q I have been trying to locate a manufacturer of a walking boot or walking shoe which is synthetic , ie not leather or suede for a vegetarian friend , but so far have had no luck . |
| 6 | SIR — Since Peterborough reported that the Maastricht Treaty was being sold by HMSO ( March 19 ) I have been trying to obtain a copy without success . |
| 7 | We have been invited to have a stall , with an exhibition of the railway , at next year 's Bishop 's Castle Agricultural Show . |
| 8 | To process the order , the company would have to take labour off current projects that have been costed to yield a contribution of £5/hr . |
| 9 | 3.1 Signature of this Agreement will bind the Parties on whose behalf the signatures have been appended to form a Consortium within the meaning contained in the Framework . |
| 10 | ‘ I think the whole business by which novel therapies have been tested leaves a lot to be desired , ’ he says . |
| 11 | Ever since being given a large stalk of them at the end of last summer , I have been wanting to make a design from them . |
| 12 | I have been asked to do a couple of days work in Aberdeen sometime next month and also some part time development/fund-raising work for a charity ( The Association for the Preservation of Rural Scotland ) . |
| 13 | ‘ You know that I have been asked to give a course of sermons at St Basil 's ? |
| 14 | Schoolchildren have been asked to design a mural as part of a facelift on a grubby subway in the centre of South Bank between Asda and Nelson Street . |
| 15 | Schoolchildren have been asked to design a mural as part of a facelift on a grubby subway in the centre of South Bank between Asda and Nelson Street . |
| 16 | I find it very difficult to dwell on these serious — even gloomy — thoughts when the sun is shining , the winds light and I have been asked to take a party of visitors out for a boat trip . |
| 17 | IF you are a celebrity of some kind then the odds are that you have been asked to endorse a product of some kind . |
| 18 | Nether Wyresdale Parish Council have received a summary of the report but I have been asked to obtain a copy of the complete report . |
| 19 | I have been asked to send a copy of this letter to the local police station dealing with the accident . |
| 20 | Mr Taylor must ensure a sceptical public understand that it is to obtain these securities for their less fortunate brethren that the highly-paid Premier League players have been asked to express a willingness to strike . |
| 21 | Looking at it another way , imagine that you have been asked to make a bookcase in a craft lesson . |
| 22 | Now , it seems , the counties have been asked to approve a formula which will endanger their ability to stand upright of their own accord . |
| 23 | We have been asked to provide a re-mark service , one or two of you seem to think you did n't do too well in April and would like to submit reworked tests — NO PROBLEM SPEAK TO SUZANNE . |
| 24 | Teachers are professionals who have been trained to deliver a curriculum which develops the learning and skills of young people while recognising the wider context of the application of this learning . |
| 25 | Fire crews have been called to tackle a blaze tonight at house in Oxford . |
| 26 | Arrangements have been made to plant a tree in Regent 's Park , in the vicinity of Molly 's tree close by St. John 's Hall , on Tuesday 25th March at 11.00 a.m . |
| 27 | Many attempts have been made to find a version of utilitarianism which avoids the oddities both of straight totalistic utilitarianism and straight average utilitarianism but none seems to be really satisfactory . |
| 28 | However , although only a minority affected by it develop microcephaly and other conditions associated with mental handicap , it is common and attempts have been made to develop a vaccine which would prevent potential damage . |
| 29 | Along the way , there have been some interesting recantations by erstwhile Keynesian economists whilst their still committed colleagues have been stimulated to mount a counter-attack [ Brittan , 1975 ; Hicks , 1975 ; Meade , 1982 ; Shonfield , 1984 ] . |
| 30 | In addition to pottery , the core material from bronzes that have been cast using a clay core ( see p. 84 ) can also be tested by TL , since this ceramic material has normally been fired to a sufficiently high temperature to ‘ zero the TL clock ’ . |